SPLASH 2014
Mon 20 - Fri 24 October 2014 Portland, Oregon, United States
Fri 24 Oct 2014 14:15 - 14:37 at Salon E - Static Analysis Chair(s): Anders Møller

Inclusion-based alias analysis for C can be formulated as a context-free language (CFL) reachability problem. It is well known that the traditional cubic CFL-reachability algorithm does not scale well in practice. We present a highly scalable and efficient CFL-reachability-based alias analysis for C. The key novelty of our algorithm is to propagate reachability information along only original graph edges and bypass a large portion of summary edges, while the traditional CFL-reachability algorithm propagates along all summary edges. We also utilize the Four Russians’ Trick - a key enabling technique in the subcubic CFL-reachability algorithm - in our alias analysis. We have implemented our subcubic alias analysis and conducted extensive experiments on widely-used C programs from the pointer analysis literature. The results demonstrate that our alias analysis scales extremely well in practice. In particular, it can analyze the recent Linux kernel (which consists of 10M SLOC) in about 30 seconds.

Fri 24 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Static AnalysisOOPSLA at Salon E
Chair(s): Anders Møller Aarhus University
13:30
22m
Talk
Validation of Memory Accesses Through Symbolic Analyses
OOPSLA
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13:52
22m
Talk
Abstract Semantic Differencing via Speculative Correlation
OOPSLA
Nimrod Partush Technion, Eran Yahav Technion
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14:15
22m
Talk
Efficient Subcubic Alias Analysis for C
OOPSLA
Qirun Zhang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, A: Xiao Xiao The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, A: Charles Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, A: Hao Yuan BOPU Technologies, A: Zhendong Su University of California, Davis
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14:37
22m
Talk
Static Analysis for Independent App Developers
OOPSLA
Lucas Brutschy ETH Zurich, Pietro Ferrara IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Peter Müller ETH Zurich
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